The third in a series of posts about creating a dual-purpose, free-ranging, organic flock of chickens that lay multicoloured eggs and produces some of the finest meat we have ever tasted.
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Chickens: Creating a Dual Purpose UK Easter Egger Flock – Part 2
This is part two of the story of how we created our dual purpose meat and coloured egg laying flock here on the smallholding. You can read part 1 here. After a lot of research, we settled on four main breeds that we wanted to keep to form the base of our flock.
Chickens: Creating a Dual-Purpose UK Easter Egger Flock – Part 1
We came up with a chicken-keeping plan several years ago, which we have been working on here on the smallholding ever since. Our ultimate aim was to create a happy, free-ranging and organic flock that lays a multicoloured array of eggs and produces some of the finest meat we have ever tasted. This is the…